>>>Really? In my books it stand for "oll korrect" from the 1830's and for short it was brought to OK never Okay. ;-) >> >> >>Etymology is suspect but I always thought it came from "oll korrekt". So you are OK. >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay > >I thought it came from an Indian (Choctaw) word, but I think I might have learned that from a Tom Lehrer song. <g> > >Tamar
Choctaw is also mentioned in the article I linked to. It is one of the possible options.
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